Re: websites issues and referral to additional list?

[Evelyn Lee Barney <evbarney -at- comcast -dot- net>]

Well, here is an example of how it works:


The link that opens a new (external) window as many times as you click:

<a href="http://k12.usc.edu/AW/"; target="_blank">The AnimalWatch Tutor</a>

The link altered to open the window with an external page, but only once:

<a href="http://k12.usc.edu/AW/"; target="foo">The AnimalWatch Tutor</a>

I said no " " -- but that is how you write it in the Dreamweaver target 
box.  If you are hard-coding, you do use the " "  Any string of letters 
that is not already reserved will work.  Since all the reserved names I 
know start with _ (are not strictly alphabetical) I think I'm safe. You 
won't find this on the drop-down list.  Just type it in.

It's not foo.html -- the url isn't touched -- just the target.

As for double clicking, it's easy to do by accident. 

Ev

Jerry Kindall wrote:
> Ev, I don't have any knowledge of Dreamweaver specifically, but it looks
> to me like that's just an HTML target attribute (e.g. in the HTML it
> becomes <a href="foo.html" target="_blank">).  A target of "_blank"
> means that the link always opens a new window.  If you use any other
> name (make one up suitable to your project, but don't start it with an
> underscore), then the first link opens a window of that name, and
> subsequent links use the same window if it exists (if the user closes
> it, a new one is opened with the next link).  (Also, "_self" can be used
> to force a link to open in the same window as the document containing
> the link.)
>
> (Users are still double-clicking Web links -- in 2009! *boggle*)
>
>   
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